SLOTH - MAMMAL FAIR -TRADE CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT - WOVEN BY PERUVIAN AMAZON ARTISAN

Sale price$16.00

This unique fair-trade ornament represents the sloth. It will look great hanging on your Christmas tree, rear-view mirror or sitting on your desk or brim of your favorite hat. This decoration was woven with chambira palm fiber by a native Amazon artisan. The sale of these ornaments supports forest conservation and helps meet local needs in traditional communities in Peru. These sloths were made artisans from the campesino village of San Francisco on the Maranon River. Each ornament comes with a tag listing the name and home of the artisan who made it and the plants used to make it.

MODEL: ORM023

Also see: Sloth Balsa Wood Ornament  and Sloth Calabash Ornament and Rattle

Size: medium

Support native artisans 
& rainforest in the Amazon

Amazon forest loss is driving species to extinction, aggravating global warming, and robbing people of unique medicines, foods and other benefits. Cutting and burning forests is often more profitable than conserving them, so some native communities in northern Peru have illegally logged and grown coca and other cash-crops to escape poverty.

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